Adolfo Aranjuez
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PANELS, WORKSHOPS & OTHER
I have extensive expertise appearing in and moderating panels, running workshops (bolstered by a postgraduate teaching qualification!), hosting Q&As, judging prizes and offering industry advice. I take particular pride in my ability to sustain audience attention through a canny blend of humour and authority, alongside careful contextualisation and responsiveness. I’m just as comfortable with small-room one-on-ones as with speaking in front of a hundred-seat hall.

Organisations I’ve worked with include the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival,
The Wheeler Centre, Midsumma, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Writers SA, and various libraries and councils. 
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Image: Private Parts: More than Queer, The Wheeler Centre, 2019 
 
PANELS & IN-CONVERSATIONS​​
  • Beyond the Book, The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, December 2022)
  • Ask About… Anthologies, Writers Victoria (online, October 2022)
  • ‘Against Disappearance (with Leah Jing McIntosh & Adolfo Aranjuez)’ ▶︎, Race Matters, FBi Radio (podcast, September 2022)
  • Losing Their Religion, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2022)
  • Academia and Criticism, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2022)
  • Liminal Spaces, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Springvale, June 2022)
  • Growing Up Queer, Midsumma & Hobsons Bay Libraries (online, February 2022)
  • What We Become ▶︎, Melbourne Writers Festival (podcast, January 2022)
  • Cultural Forum: Masculine Archetypes in Pop Culture, Yarra Libraries (online, November 2021)
  • Reframing Asian-Australia: From Representation to Reality ▶︎, University of Melbourne & Liminal (online, October 2021)
  • Brandon Taylor: Filthy Animals, Melbourne Writers Festival (online, September 2021)
  • Platform ▶︎, Emerging Writers’ Festival & The Other Film Festival (online, June 2021)
  • Becoming Us, Midsumma & Immigration Museum (Melbourne, April 2021)
  • Medium Spicy 2 and TIME Series artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, January 2021)
  • Agak-Agak and Centre for New Geography artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, January 2021)
  • Sanctuary and Mother artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, January 2021)
  • 40 Days artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, January 2021)
  • Omoon in the Teapot and ToA Connect artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, January 2021)
  • Not Your Asian Fantasy and Borealis artist talk ▶︎, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria (online, December 2020)​​​​​​
  • ​Future in Retrograde: Storytelling and Inclusion on Screen ▶︎, The Other Film Festival & The Wheeler Centre (online, November 2020)
  • ​‘Amos Gebhardt / Small acts of resistance’ ▶︎, On Art, Samstag Museum of Art (podcast, November 2020)
  • ​​Swipe Right: Love in the Digital Age, National Portrait Gallery (online, October 2020)
  • ​​​​Jing-Jing Lee: How We Disappeared ▶︎, Melbourne Writers Festival (online, August 2020)​
  • ‘MOD.TV with Adolfo Aranjuez’ ▶︎, MOD. Museum (online, June 2020)
  • ​‘Take 2 with Adolfo Aranjuez’ ▶︎, The Capitol (online, June 2020)
  • The Relationship Is the Project – queer contributors, Brow Books (Fitzroy, February 2020)​
  • Digital Futures ▶︎, The Other Film Festival & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, October 2019)
  • Dating in the Digital Age, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2019)​​
  • Growing Up Queer in Australia, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2019)
  • Queer Fear, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2019)​​​
  • ​Love Letters to ‘New Phone, Who Dis?’, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2019)​
  • ​Queering Language, Bus Projects (Collingwood, August 2019)​
  • Film Criticism: Spaces to Write, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2019)​​​​​
see older panels & in-conversations (2017 – July 2019)
  • On the Crew: Art, Australian Film Television & Radio School (Melbourne, July 2019)​​
  • The Writer’s Hustle, City of Adelaide & Writers SA (Adelaide, July 2019) ​
  • Open and Shut: Constructive Feedback, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2019)​
  • Industry Insights, ATOM Youth Media Festival (Melbourne, June 2019)​
  • The Library Is Open: Queer Literary Perspectives, Victorian Public Sector Pride Network (Melbourne, May 2019) ​​
  • Private Parts: More than Queer ▶︎, The Wheeler Centre & Archer (Melbourne, April 2019)
  • Can Love (and Sex) Change the World?, Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Melbourne, March 2019)​
  • Adolfo Aranjuez in Conversation with Tony Birch, Readings & Meanjin (St Kilda, March 2019)
  • Writers in Conversation, Hobsons Bay Libraries & Midsumma (Newport, January 2019)
  • Consent 101, Consent Festival, Midsumma (Collingwood, January 2019)
  • Future Melbourne ▶︎ & Melbourne, 2030, The Wheeler Centre & UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature (Melbourne, November 2018)
  • Gender and the Fluidity of Being, Jaipur Literature Festival & OzAsia Festival (Adelaide, November 2018)
  • Dystopias and Dyschronias, Jaipur Literature Festival & OzAsia Festival (Adelaide, November 2018)
  • In Bloom, VICE & Minus18 (Collingwood, October 2018)
  • The Next Creative Revolution: QTPOC and Indigenous Cultural Spaces, AGMC & Midsumma (St Kilda, September 2018)
  • Dystopia on Screen ▶︎, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne, September 2018)
  • ​​The Responsibility of the Critic, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2018)​
  • Q&A with jiaqing wilson-yang, Brow Books (Melbourne, August 2018)
  • Diverse Perspectives on Philanthropy, The Channel (Melbourne, March 2018)
  • Queer Some Space: Art and Literature, The Lifted Brow & MPavilion (Melbourne, January 2018)
  • Everyone Has a Story, Hobsons Bay Libraries & Midsumma (Newport, January 2018)​
  • Balimbing: Filipino Queerness artist talk, Multicultural Arts Victoria (South Melbourne, December 2017)
  • Classic Dystopias ▶︎, Yarra Libraries (Fitzroy, November 2017)
  • Straight White Men’s News, Centre for Advancing Journalism & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, November 2017)
  • Identities, Politics and Intersectionality, Melbourne Free University (Melbourne, October 2017)
  • How I Got My Start in the Arts, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2017)
  • Changing Languages, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2017)
  • Word Nerd Grammar Gabbers, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2017)
  • Intergenerational Warfare, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2017)
  • Protest & Persist: Identity Politics, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • Protest & Persist: Changing Minds, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • How I Came to Australia, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • Dystopia on Film ▶︎, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • OtherLife post-screening Q&A, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • Diversity in Criticism, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2017)
  • ‘Ronny Chieng: International Student, Briohny Doyle’s Adult Fantasy and the Seasons’ ▶︎, The Rereaders (podcast, July 2017)
  • LGBTQIA+ in Australia, The Channel & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, February 2017)​
see OLDER panels & in-conversations (2016 & earlier)
  • Censorship and Political Correctness, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2016)
  • Future of … Education, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2016)
  • Media Justice, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2016)
  • Modern Cultural Identity, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (Melbourne, November 2015)
  • Hero Babes, Girls On Film Festival (Melbourne, October 2015) 
  • Other Englishes, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2015)
  • The Masses and the Media: Ensuring Equal Representation, RMIT (Melbourne, October 2015)
  • Voicing Race, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August 2015)
  • Winning Writing: Literary Awards, Melbourne Writers Festival (Eltham, August 2015)
  • Emerging Writers, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August 2015)
  • Caravan Conversations, Melbourne Writers Festival & Dumbo Feather (Melbourne, August 2015)
  • Invisible Illness, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2014)
  • Speaking in Tongues ▶︎, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2014)
  • $$$$$ ▶︎, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2013)
  • Writing Awards and Grants, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, May 2013)
  • A Writer’s Life, City of Stonnington, [untitled] Festival & Melbourne High School (South Yarra, November, 2012)
  • ‘Kill Your Darlings?: Editors Talk’, Kill Your Darlings (podcast, August 2012)
  • Ask the Publisher: Short Fiction, Writers Victoria (Melbourne, July 2012)
  • Under-18 Readers’ Group, Express Media (Melbourne, May 2009)
  • Getting Published, Swinburne University (Hawthorn, April & October 2009, April 2010)
  • Welcome to University, Swinburne University (Hawthorn, February 2008)
Image: Dystopia on Film, MIFF 2017 (photo by Damian Sullivan; watch MIFF footage here ▶︎)
 
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
  • Mentor – Watch This Space x NT Writers’ Centre Emerging Writers Residency (online, February–March 2023)
  • How to Market a Film Festival, RMIT (Melbourne, March 2023)
  • Mentor – ASA Mentorship Program, Australian Society of Authors (2022–present)
  • Movement Workshop: My Body Is Ready, RMIT x IDAHOBIT (Melbourne, May 2022)
  • (The) Nuts and Bolts (of) Editing, Editing Micro-Festival (online, November 2021)
  • Live Editing Workshop, Melbourne International Film Festival (online, August 2021)
  • Being a Freelance Writer, ATOM Youth Media Festival (online, July 2021)
  • Story in Motion, Midsumma & Immigration Museum (online, April 2021)
  • Editing Intensive: Language Foundations, Djed Press Editorial Mentorship Program (online, April 2021)
  • Culture Makers Lab, Immigration Museum (online, March 2021)
  • ​‘How to Review a Film’ ▶︎, Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, Melbourne Fringe Festival (online, November 2020)
  • Mentor – Critics Campus, Melbourne International Film Festival (online, August 2020)​
  • Future of Literature: Roundtable, Footscray Community Arts Centre (online, May 2020)​
  • Managing a Publication, NEWS Conference & Express Media (Melbourne, January 2020)​​​​​
  • ​​Asian Art Futures: Closed Forum, Multicultural Arts Victoria (Melbourne, November 2019)
  • Poetry Workshop, Iridescent QPOC Festival (Fitzroy, November 2019)​​​​​​​
  • Making It, La Trobe University (Melbourne, August 2019)
  • Live Editing Workshop, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2019)
  • Scene It: Hands-on Film Criticism, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2019)​​
  • ​​Making Mentorships Work, Midsumma (Melbourne, April 2019)
  • ​Managing a Publication, NEWS Conference & Express Media (Melbourne, January 2019)
  • Mental Health in the Arts Industries, Arts Access Victoria (South Melbourne, October 2018)
  • ​​Mentor – Critics Campus, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2018)​
  • Participant – Midsumma Futures development program, Midsumma (Melbourne, June 2017 – June 2018)
  • Signal x Liminal: Visual Storytelling, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2018)​​​​​
see older Workshops & Seminars
  • ​Artist Training: Speaking to an Audience, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2018)
  • Tall Buildings: Their Problems and Some Ideas, Melbourne Design Week (Melbourne, March 2018)​
  • ​The Nuts and Bolts of Editing, NEWS Conference & Express Media, (Melbourne, January 2018)
  • Managing a Publication, NEWS Conference & Express Media (Melbourne, January 2018)
  • How to Write a Story, Study Melbourne & Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2017)
  • Creating Your Own Context, Next Wave (Melbourne, April 2016)
  • ‘Editing and Proofreading’, The Signal Express (Melbourne, November 2015)
  • Getting into the Editing Profession, Express Media (Melbourne, June 2014)
  • ‘Being an Editor’, The Under Age (Melbourne, September 2013)
  • Write for Life, St Michael’s Grammar School (St Kilda, June 2013)
  • Writing Nonfiction, Express Media & St Michael’s Grammar School (Melbourne, June 2013)
  • Paper Fire, 100 Story Building, Express Media & SYN Radio (Footscray & Melbourne, April–June 2013)
  • The 12-Week Production Cycle, Express Media & Australian University Student Media Conference (Canberra, April 2013)
  • Younger Young Writers’ Program, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2012)
  • Hate Yourself: The Art of Self-Editing, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2012)
  • Getting Published, Wyndham City Council (Werribee, August 2012)
  • Feed Forward, Express Media & Signal (Melbourne, May 2010)
 
JUDGING & CONSULTATION
  • Judge – Top Screen, VCE Season of Excellence, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (2019–present)
  • Convenor (Poetry) – Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (2022)
  • Judge – Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards, City of Melbourne (2022)
  • Industry advisor – Creative Victoria (2022)​
  • Assessor – Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship, Australian Society of Authors (2022)
  • Industry advisor – School of Media and Communication, RMIT (2020–2022)
  • Selection panellist – ​​The Next Chapter, The Wheeler Centre & The Aesop Foundation (2019–2021)
  • Industry advisor – Australia Council for the Arts (2021)​​
  • Selection panellist – Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize (2021)
  • Judge – Midsumma Pride March Awards (2019, 2021)
  • Strategic advisor – UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature (2019–2020)
  • Judge – Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards, Darebin City Council (2017–2018, 2020)​
  • Assessor – Young Creatives Lab, Signal & City of Melbourne (2020)​
see older Judging & Consultation
  • ​​Judge – Midsumma Carnival Lip-Sync Limelight (2019)
  • Judge – The Meanjin Tournament of Books, Meanjin (2013)
  • Judge – The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, Scribe & Express Media (2013)
  • Judge – Yarra Storytelling Competition, City of Yarra (2012)
  • Judge – The John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, Express Media (2009) 
  • Judge – Write Across Victoria Competition, Melbourne Writers Festival (2008)
 
INTERVIEWS & PRESS​​
  • ​‘Scattered and LGBTQIA+ Screen Representation’, Rainbow History Class (July 2021)
  • ‘More to TikTok than Viral Dance Trends – and These Aussies Are Proving It’, The Age (June 2021)
  • ‘Queer TikTok Series Scattered Builds Audience before Launch’, ArtsHub (May 2021)
  • ​‘We Die in Disproportionate Numbers: Disabled People on Disasters’, The Age (March 2021)
  • ‘“I Have Three Cultures”: How Young Multicultural Australians Are Finding Their Identity’, The Feed, SBS (February 2021) 
  • ‘Online Series Scattered for TikTok Greenlit’, Screen Australia (December 2020)
  • ‘My Top Five Films: Adolfo Aranjuez’ ▶︎, Evenings, ABC Radio Melbourne (November 2020)
  • ‘Book Week: Adolfo Aranjuez’, Victoria Together (October 2020)
  • ‘What We’re Reading’, The Age (August 2020)
  • ‘Meet Adolfo Aranjuez’, Melbourne Writers Festival (July 2020)
  • ‘Sensitive Subjects: The Value of Sensitivity Reading’, Books+Publishing (July 2020)
  • ‘Spamsilog: Adolfo Aranjuez’, Whatever Floats Your Bloat (April 2020)​​
  • ‘Racism, Sloppy Journalism or Both?’, ABC News (September 2019)​​​​
  • ​‘Writer of the Week’, Maudlin House (June 2019)
  • ‘Interview with Adolfo Aranjuez’ ▶︎, The Gays Are Revolting (May 2019)
  • ‘My Feed’ ▶︎, RN Drive, ABC Radio National (April 2019)​
  • ​Thursday Breakfast ▶︎, 3CR (April 2019)
  • ​All Things Queer, RTRFM (March 2019)​​
  • ​​‘Secret Sex Lives of Gen Z’, ABC News (January 2019)
  • The Glasshouse, Triple R, episode 5636 (December 2018)
  • ​​​​‘The 25 Greatest Australian Films of the 21st Century’, Flicks.com.au (July 2018)
  • ‘Why We Need Sensitivity, Generosity and Kindness in the Arts’, ArtsHub (July 2018)
  • ‘Queer Elders & Performing in Heels’ ▶︎, Agenda, FBi Radio, episode 72 (June 2018)​
  • ‘We Spoke to Emerging Writers About Their Queer Icons’, SBS Sexuality (June 2018)
  • ‘Call Me Ange: Language and Queerness’ ▶︎, All the Best, FBi Radio, episode 1805 (March 2018)​
  • ‘Queer and Always Queering: The Resilience of LGBTIQ+ Filipino-Australians’, Peril (August 2017)​​
see older Interviews & Press
  • ‘International Students Share the Highs and Lows of Australian Life’, ABC News (August 2017)
  • ​‘Late Night Lit: Collisions’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (June 2017)
  • ‘Should I Write a Book?', Writers Bloc (June 2017)
  • ‘Dance Helps Tell Story’, Maribyrnong Leader (May 2017)
  • ‘Translating Writing for Performance’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (May 2017)
  • ‘Six People on What They’d Tell Their Younger Selves about Mental Health’, The Cusp (May 2017)​
  • ‘A Conversation with Adolfo Aranjuez’, Liminal (April 2017)​
  • ‘Ascension Matters: Diversity Is…’ (Part 1 ▶︎ and Part 2 ▶︎), Ascension (March 2017)
  • ‘A Pocket Guide to the Melbourne Writers Festival’, Urban Walkabout (August 2016)
  • ‘Adolfo Aranjuez: I Want to Know What Love Is’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (June 2016)
  • ‘The GOFFMothers of 2015’, Girls On Film Festival (October 2015)
  • ‘Filipino-Australian, a Leading Storyteller in Victoria ▶︎’, SBS Radio (August 2015)
  • ‘30 Under 30: Meet Melbourne’s Next Generation of Writers’, The Age (April 2015)
  • ‘Voix Interview: Adolfo Aranjuez’ ▶︎, Virgule (January 2014)
  • Voiceworks editors interview, Aural Text, 3RRR (February 2009)

​I live and work on the unceded traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples, and pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

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